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Lupinus variicolor (varied lupine)

Synonyms: Lupinus littoralis var. variicolor (homotypic); Lupinus micheneri; Lupinus michneri; Lupinus versicolor (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Lupinus variicolor (varied lupine, manycolored lupine, Lindley's varied lupine or varicolored lupine) is a shrub in the lupine (lupin) genus Lupinus. Its range is restricted to the northern coastal scrub and coastal prairie in the U.S. state of California. It thrives in elevations between sea level and 1,640 ft (500 m) L. variicolor is endemic to the U.S. state of California where it occurs mostly along the northern coast, though it has also been reported in Sutter County, California. It is one of the foodplants of the endangered mission blue butterfly.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Shrub

Predators

Glaucopsyche lygdamus (palos verdes blue butterfly)[3]

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0